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APPARATUS FOR GLEANING GHIM'NEYS.

.893. v Patented a 31,1887.-

U ITED STATES GEoEGE H RVEY, or WINNIPEG,.MANITOBA, CANADA:

PATENT OFFICE.

APPARATUS FOR CLEANINGICHIMNEYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No 363,893, dated May 31,1887. Application filerlJnne 3, 1886. Serial No. 204,045. No model.)

subject of the Queen of Great Britain, resid-- ing at Winnipeg, in theProvince of Manitoba and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Apparatus for Cleaning Chimneys; and Idohereby' declare that the'following is afull, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same. v

My invention relates to apparatus for cleaning chimneys, the object ofthe invention being to provide devices for this purpose which shall besimple in their construction, strong and durable, and which may bereadily and easily operated from the bottom of the flue.

With these ends in view the invention consists in the improvedconstruction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described;

and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional .view illustrating theapplication of my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the thimbleemployed to fit .the stove-pipe hole while the apparatus is beingoperated, as shown. A

Corresponding parts in both the figures are denoted by the same le'tersof reference.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a portion of the flue. At theupper end of the flue is provided a cross-bar, B, preferably of iron,which is provided at its ends withdownwardly-extending arms a, formedwith shoulders b, said arms being placed within the flue, the shouldersholding said beam in place.

0 represents a block or pulley, which is suitably swiveled to the underside of the beam B, at a point preferably about midway its ends.

D represents a thimble, which preferably consists of a hollow cylinderhaving closed ends, as shown at c. Openings are made in the said ends 0of the cylinder; and passing through the cylinder and connecting the.openings in the ends 0 are pipes or tubes d, which are preferablyprovided with flaring ends. Passing through the cylinder is an arm, f,which is bent at its inner end at right angles to its body.

E represents a wire, or wire cable or chain, which passes over thesheave in the block or pulley and through one pipe or tube, d, and backthrough the other pipe or tube.

dental detachment of the thimble.

F represents a brush, which preferably consists of a bunch or bunches ofwires, or wooden splints, the free ends of the wire or cable E. beingsecured to said brush.

The operation of my invention is as follows: The beam B, pulley O, andwire cable are permanently attached, as shown and described. When it isdesired to clean a chimney, the stovepipe is removed from its hole andoneend of the cord drawn down and attached to the brush.

7 The other end of the wire or cable is then passed through the tubes inthe thimble and attached to the brush, after which the thimble isinserted in the stove-pipe hole and the arm f turned, 6

causing its bent inner end to bear against the inner side of the flueand prevent the acci- After the parts have been adjusted as describedthe brush ismoved up and down the chimney by means of the wire or cable,thus scraping the sides of the flue and removing the soot. After thesoot has been removed the thimble is detached from the hole and thebrush removed and the cable allowed to remain in position.

The apparatus may also be used for cleaning chimneys other than thosehaving stove-pipe holes, and without the thimble and tubes, and in thiscase only the cross-bar with pulley, the wire cable, and the brush wouldbe employed.

Having thus described my invention, I- clai1n- T The combination, in achimney-cleaner, of a support at the top of the chimney, a thimblelocated in the wall of the chimney at thelower end and provided with twoopenings, a continuous cable passing through the openings in the thimbleand over a pulley upon the support at the top of the chimney, and abrush 0 located transversely in the chimney and se-g cured to andcarried by the cable, substant-ially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GE RG HARVEY.

Witnesses:

' JOHN MERRIOK BATEMAN JOHN GoRDoN MORGAN.-

